Faithful

A woman wakes up in a bed she doesn't know and seems to be trapped by a man twice her age. She tries to escape, but after a wild getaway, she saves herself back in the same house she escaped from. An older version of her speaks to her from a computer. Only then does she realize that she is suffering from Alzheimer's and is actually the same age as the man who is her husband. She remembers the early years of their relationship, when they were both famous actors on stage. Before our eyes, the thriller transforms into a character drama and then into the bizarre beauty of a great love story in the midst of an illness.

  • Hansjörg Thurn
    Director
    Schimanski, Marmor, Stein & Eisen, The Harpist
  • Anthony Arndt
    Producer
  • Uwe Schäfer
    Cinematographer/ DoP
  • Ollie Lanvermann
    Editor
  • Philip Whitfield
    Colorist
  • Christoph Hundt
    Sound Mix
  • Anthony Arndt
    Key Cast
    "Anthony"
  • Annika Kuhl
    Key Cast
    "Marie"
  • Bianca Arndt
    Key Cast
    "Nachbarin"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Treu
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 20, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    100,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Shooting Format:
    BlackMagicRAW
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:2,4
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Hansjörg Thurn

Hansjörg Thurn completed film studies in Dortmund with the "Ruhrgebiet director" Adolf Winkelmann and Professor Claudia von Alemann. Further training in dramaturgy and production took place in the following years with Frank Daniel, Matthias Seelig, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Krzysztof Zanussi, Mark W. Travis and then in the USA with Judith Weston. After years as a journalist, Thurn created Götz George's famous crimestory "Schimanski" for television and wrote several screenplays for it. He wrote and directed his first cinema movies with "The Harpist" and "Marmor, Stein & Eisen". With "Seventeen" began a successful work as a writer and director of television films in a variety of genres. Thurn created, wrote and directed the historical Mini-Series „Treasure Island" and the successful tv-comedy "Barefoot up to the neck", which received various nominations and awards (Grimme Award, German Television Award, German Comedy Award. He then directed the historical film "Die Wanderhure“ („The Whore“), a great success, which was followed by a number of other historical films. In the last couple of years he directed various film projects for German television.

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Director Statement

My film shows a woman in the midst of the somnambulant despair of Alzheimer’s dementia and will take the audience on a nightmarish rollercoaster ride to the realization that the dignity and preciousness of great love will defy all human decay.